Highlights
- Lake Chad basin: Cholera platform is alerting on the situation (please refer to page 2 and 3).
- Nigeria: seven states affected with main concerns in Zamfara, Katsina and Kano. The situation has improved significantly in Adamawa and Bauchi (few sporadic cases).
- Niger: unprecedented outbreak in the Maradi region with 332 cases on week 30 affected Maradi city.
- Cameroon: three main outbreak in “Nord, littoral & Centre” regions with Douala and Yaoundé at risk.
- D. R. Congo: 682 cases reported and 13 deaths. The Grand Kasaï region has been facing serious cholera outbreak for 2 months with poor emergency response and high lethality rate as much of the focus and capacity are on Ebola outbreak.